Too Good To Be True is a gripping Quick Read from Ann Cleeves featuring Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez from the bestselling Shetland series When young teacher Anna Blackwell is found dead in her home the police think her death was suicide or a tragic accident After all Stonebridge is a quiet country village in the Scottish Borders where murders just don't happen But Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez soon arrives from far-away Shetland when his ex-wife Sarah asks him to look into the case The local gossips are saying that her new husband Tom was having an affair with Anna Could Tom have been involved with her death? Sarah refuses to believe it
- but needs proof Anna had been a teacher She must have loved kids Would she kill herself knowing there was nobody to look after her daughter? She had seemed happier than ever before she died & to Perez this suggests not suicide but murder
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The desert is too hot to stand still so Hoppit & his friends keep moving As more & more animals join who knows where they're going to end up! It's a big surprise for everyone except the snake & eagle who try to warn them what's ahead Join in the rhythm & rhyme of the animal parade in this poem written & illustrated by Steve Webb 24 pages Webb Steve ...

War is too important to be left to the generals' snapped future French prime minister Georges Clemenceau on learning of yet another bloody & futile offensive on the Western Front One of the great questions in the ongoing discussions & debate about the First World War is why did winning take so long & exact so appalling a human cost? After all this was a fight that we were told would be over by Christmas Now in his major new history Allan Mallinson former professional soldier & author of the acclaimed 1914 Fight the Good Fight provides answers that are disturbing as well as controversial & have a contemporary resonance He disputes the growing consensus among historians that British generals were not to blame for the losses & setbacks in the war to end all wars'
- that given the magnitude of their task they did as well anyone could have He takes issue with the popular view that the amateur' opinions on strategy of politicians such as Lloyd George & especially Winston Churchill prolonged the war & increased the death toll On the contrary he argues even before the war began Churchill had a far more realistic intelligent & humane grasp of strategy than any of the admirals or generals while very few senior officers
- including Sir Douglas Haig
- were up to the intellectual challenge of waging war on this scale & he repudiates the received notion that Churchill's stature as a wartime prime minister after 1940 owes much to the lessons he learned from his First World War mistakes'
- notably the Dardanelles campaign
- maintaining that in fact Churchill's achievement in the Second World War owes much to the thwarting of his better strategic judgement by the professionals' in the First
- & his determination that this would not be repeated Mallinson argues that from day one of the war Britain was wrong-footed by absurdly faulty French military doctrine & paid as a result an unnecessarily high price in casualties He shows that Lloyd George understood only too well the catastrophically dysfunctional condition of military policy-making & struggled against the weight of military opposition to fix it & he asserts that both the British & the French failed to appreciate what the Americans' contribution to victory could be
- & after the war to acknowledge fully what it had actually been






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Shortlisted for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best SF Novel The year is 2454 Humanity has engineered a hard-won golden age forged in the aftermath of a bitter conflict that wiped both religion & nation state from the planet Now seven factions or 'hives' co-govern the world their rule fuelled by benign censorship oracular statistical analytics & technological abundance But this is a fragile Utopia
- & someone is intent on pushing it to breaking point Convicted for his crimes celebrated for his talents Mycroft Canner is the indentured instrument
- & confidant
- of some of the world's most powerful figures When he is asked to investigate a bizarre theft he finds himself on the trail of a conspiracy that could shatter the tranquil world order the Hives have maintained for three centuries But Mycroft has his own secrets He is concealing a much greater threat to the seven Hives a wild card no degree of statistical analysis could have prophesised This threat takes the unlikely form of a thirteen-year-old called Bridger For how will a world that has banished God deal with a child who can perform miracles?


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Rabbit has too many carrots which overtake his house When he tries to move in with friends more chaos ensues Will Rabbit learn to change his selfish ways? ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Too Many Crooks (1958) boasts an intricate plot in which Terry Thomas is being blackmailed for the hoards he&s stashed away as a renowned tax dodger Driving around in a Jaguar XK 150 a desirable sports car of the period his intricate private life unravels as his put-upon wife Brenda de Banzie draws on her expertise as a wartime PT instructress to turn the tables on him by marshalling the support of a band of crooks (George Cole Sidney James Bernard Bresslaw & Joe Melia) Look out for the very funny court scene where TT makes three appearances on separate charges before a bemused magistrate John Le Mesurier ...

Primo the Monkey was fast asleep until his friends swung by for a surprise pajama party Help Primo chase away the primate pranksters by flipping & swapping cards in numerical order Watch out for elephants & giraffes who want to crash in on the fun & if you&re lucky draw a wild monkey card to clear out the room in one clean sweep The first player to stop the monkey mayhem & get Primo back to bed wins Contents include 55 cards Rules of play & Rules in Spanish too A totally bananas card game
Includes: engaging images of playful monkeys Reinforces number sequencing & probability 55 cards & storage box included For 2 to 6 players
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The words & music from Tom Lehrer's recorded collections
- ' Songs by Tom Lehrer' ' An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer' & ' That
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Tracklist South City Court Sixty's Ford Sira's Biscuits Diamonds Gold Neighbours 1992 PT 2 Panther Super Soaker (Skit) Tearing Us Apart FM Mangal (Skit) God Save the T's Patterns Start the Fire ...

Too Much Birthday Cake Greeting Card Humorous blank card from ICON's Life Is Sweet range Each greeting card is cello wrapped with a bright yellow envelope Card Size 16x 16 ...